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Re: Benefits of FrameMaker

One reason I've run into that QA likes Word is that they can not only read
your files, they can "correct" them. I had a QA engineer ask to have my
files in Word, so that she could just go in and "fix" what was wrong. I'm
not talking about placing comments or using change tracking--she wanted to
go in and edit the files with no further review. Well, we wrote in
FrameMaker, and supplied PDFs to reviewers, which squashed that idea pretty
quickly. Of course, you can use collaborative techniques on PDFs, but we
didn't go down that road.

Oh, and this was the same QA engineer who insisted on rewriting my
carefully-worded active voice sentences into carefully-worded passive voice.

Fred

At 12:25 PM 2/22/2002, you wrote:

> Why does QA think Word is any better? What benefit do they say that Word
> would provide?

I don't know. It is a little bizarre to me that QA is telling
documentation what to use to develop the docs. I (sorta) understand their
need to be involved with our template decisions (i.e. final look of the
document). But when they provide us a Word document that doesn't even use
any type of Style tag, their font is Arial Narrow (10pt), and their
margins are all messed up...it baffles my mind...

Serenity now!

> I can think of one why they might want you to go to Word.
> Easier to collaborate with non-TW's

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